Bissmillahi Rahmani Raheem,

I went to the park yesterday with my family, while there, I met a woman.. She seemed to have a far eastern asian look, she waved at me from some distance and started talking to me. I was doing my subtle dawa to her when she amazed me by saying " I am a muslim Alhamdolillah" saying the Alhamdolillah in saudi accent, perfectly! I was amazed as she didnt have a muslim name neither did her kids nor did they seem muslims... She seemed to be a nice person though.

She told me she didn;t pray or dress as muslims because she was disillusioned with muslims, she has muslim rather saudi neighbours without wives and they go out and  commit many sins for which she is a witness, which gets worse when she sees all the muslims in her own country committing many sins and appearing saintly from outside, in short, she said Allah is in her mind and heart and at least she is openly being what she is, and she is morallly nice so she is content...

I told her, what my father in law says, he says:" I do not follow muslims, I follow Islam" which indeed he does..

I proceeded to tell her and then also thought on my own how we feel respect and obligations towards our parents, who have no control over our health and illness, our rizq ( sustainance) and our aulaad ( children) , spouse, happiness and content and the list goes on..they marely gave birth to us and raised us when we were vulnerable... yet we fear them, we respect them, how about Allah? Who has created the entire universe for our usage and knowledge, Allah's blessings are countless, we never think of Him more than once a day, or do we?

We listen to the records of our favourite singers, yet we do not listen to Allah's words ( quran)  we read the novels and books of our favourite authors yet we do not stop to read the book of Allah, let alone showing any interest in it, so if Allah really IS in our hearts and minds, why do we not do the above things out of love for Him?

What kind of love is this? Should we not feel desperate if we do not feel the connection with Him? Should we not feel desperate to stand to talk to Him many times a day in salat? should we not rush to read His book many times a day? That would be love wouldn't it?

Should we not fear Him before we lie,cheat, backbite? We think : what if my parents got to know this or that, let's not do it, why can't we think like that about Allah who is watching us all the time, who banished the iblees for our sake, the shaytaan who promised we would follow him instead of Allah.. Allah watches while we do what iblees tells us, an entity who has been banished by Allah for our own selves.. our own disrespect..

May Allah show us the truth, if we truly love Allah, we will follow His way, love Him, fear Him, and do everything solely for Him.

Oh Allah protect us in Your care and lead us to the rght path and keep us on it, ameen.